Word: vulgarizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edna Ruggles, Plost decided, her "vulgar expressions . . . were not in any sense real blasphemy" and she should get her job back...
...without talent of sorts, but it is utterly without cispness or taste. The show (with cigar-chewing Murray as M.C.) is informal to the point of sloppiness, as though the only alternative to a boiled shirt were an egg-stained vest. And as nothing is too vulgar for Blackouts, so nothing is too venerable-one of its borrowed skits helped make Fannie Brice famous...
...there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...
This sad and ridiculous situation is the starting point of William Sansom's smoothly joined and brightly told study of middle-aged delusional jealousy. Henry Bishop yearned for the days when people gently chased butterflies with nets; by contrast, he found modern life crude and vulgar. Until Diver's appearance, his 20 years of marriage with Madge had been plain, placid and passionless. Diver was all energy and heartiness. To Madge's amusement, he thrust trick gadgets at Henry-a golden dog whose eyes lit up, a dinner plate that leaped up convulsively...
...Spanish henchman, Don Michelotto, or quietly turned over to his bland and terrifying secretary, Agapito, who, in Author Balchin's version, sounds comically like P. G. Wodehouse's inimitable Jeeves, and who removes undesirable Borgia enemies as distastefully as if they were Bertie Wooster's vulgar cravats and checked suits...